Source: A new bill could speed up American electrification by… | Canary Media

Source: Why Your Utility Company Sucks | The New Republic

Electricity utility governance in the U.S. is built on a bargain struck more than a  century ago with a burgeoning class of robber barons. In exchange for submitting to state-level regulation, highly concentrated investor-owned utilities—fierce competitors with public power providers—would receive a monopoly over massive […]

Source: The Fed Is Neglecting Its Duty to Contain Climate Risk | The New Republic

Source: Opinion | Climate Change Has Made Deadly Heat Waves Normal – The New York Times

It doesn’t take the end of the world to upend the way billions live in it. The punishing weather we are uneasily learning to call “normal” is doing that already.

Late last month, a heat wave swallowed South Asia, […]

Source: Beyond Plastics – Working To End Single-Use Plastic Pollution

On May 5th, Assemblymember Steven Englebright, Chair of the New York State Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee introduced two new bills to reduce packaging, improve recycling, and reduce litter. One of the bills would enact Extended Producer Responsibilty for packaging. The other bill, a.k.a. the Bigger […]